Cameron Bryant Harris, 22, pleaded guilty to receipt and distribution of child pornography as part of a deal in which federal prosecutors will recommend the minimum prison term under advisory sentencing guidelines.

That recommended sentence likely will exceed the five-year mandatory-minimum prison term set forth in the statute, but the exact range will not be determined until after Chief U.S. District Judge William Steele reviews the presentence investigation report.

Defense attorney Buzz Jordan said his client has a long history of mental health problems. He said he expects a clinical psychologist hired by the defense to testify about those problems at the defendant’s sentencing hearing in January.

“I’m hoping the court will take a look at that and sentence him to below the guidelines,” he said.

According to a written plea agreement, a Panama City, Florida, woman called police in Fairhope – where Harris was living at the time -- in January of last year to report that she had seen child pornography on the Facebook page of another person. That person’s Facebook wall had images of two naked, young girls, approximately 4 and 6 years old, posed in a sexual manner.

Fairhope police referred the matter to the FBI, which tracked the images to Harris, according to the plea agreement. After agents confronted him, Harris confessed that he had posted the images and told investigators that he had more child porn on his computers, according to the plea document.

FBI analysts retrieved 38 pictures – including nine depicting prepubescent minors -- on two computers. Two of them showed sadomasochistic conduct, according to court records.

The computers also had a total of 57 videos, of which 23 involved young children and four showed sadomasochistic conduct, the records state.

Investigators found evidence that Harris had used peer-to-peer file-sharing programs to download the illicit images from the Internet.

By the time the FBI began investigating, Jordan said, Harris was living in a group home run by the Baldwin County Mental Health Center. After Harris completed the program, a judge sent him to a federal prison in Miami for a mental health evaluation.

The medical staff there determined that Harris was competent to stand trial.